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History, as taught in schools and colleges, often reduces it to mere dates and events. However, history is much beyond those dates and names and events. History is essentially a story. A sto...

On the occasion of world radio day, this episode traces the evolution of the earliest broadcasting medium- Radio. It features Dr. Ujjwala Ba...

This episode moves away slightly from any history of cinema. It talks of history as depicted IN cinema. In the first part of this three-way...

Doordarshan (DD), India’s public service broadcaster is six decades old. And boy, what changes has Doordarshan seen during these years! From...

The Ramadan special food offered in Mumbai's old by-lanes of Bhendi Bazaar and Muhammad Ali Road is a part of personal history of many peopl...

Cinema is a ‘reflection of the society’, yes. And hence, it is also a moving document of our history. Indian cinema provides us innumerable...

Most of the food exchanges are so well assimilated that it is impossible to say that they once belonged somewhere else. In part two of the c...

Food is fluid. It moves with time, with people, with cultures. Food exchanges only enrich a culture and most of the food exchanges are so we...

History is not always past events. Sometimes you also live in truly historic times, much like the current pandemic. As the vaccine for CoVid...

The issue of Naxalism has plagued India for more than the past five decades with no solution in sight. This episode features journalist Sidd...

In the later half of the 1990s, the political situation in India became super unstable with no government being steady. India saw 4 election...

The late 80s have a nation going through a major change where governance takes a back seat, political opportunism is ripe and social fabric...

The first non-congress government, rampant with factions, ego, and opportunism, could not even complete a full term. This episode discusses...

In the middle of the stormy decade, came an unprecedented political move- the emergency from 1975 to 1977. The democracy was almost dead for...

The elections of 1971 happened on the backdrop of multiple major sociopolitical churnings. Indira era began a couple of years before that, d...

The fourth general election of 1967 is brought a beginning of a new era. The grand old party in India getting more factionized,clear emergen...

Moving to the 1960s, where Congress had completed a decade of power and other sociopolitical factors were playing a role in the electoral po...

That is the name of the system using which India has its election. It is crucial to understand what it is as it can massively swing election...

Did you know that the second general elections of India in 1957 is when the first incident of booth capturing was recorded?! Listen to this...

The implementation of the Mandal commission's report had deep rooted repercussions, especially in the northern India. What were these effect...

1990s remain one of the most turbulent decades of the modern India, and one of the three Ms that caused this turbulence was 'Mandal'. The re...

Part two of this wonderful conversation has Dr. Sajjan Kumar talk about why has communalism become an everyday phenomenon, and if at all, th...

The Demolition of Babri Masjid gave way to a new type of communalism in India. It is not a sporadic issue anymore, it has seeped into our da...

Parle G is an iconic made in India story by all means. A 90 year old biscuit brand,it boasts of being the world's largest selling biscuit! I...

BCCI was initially not happy with the IPL format, but the common man took to it in full force, and IPL became a hit product. It did affect t...

The Indian Premier League began in 2008 and it changed the Indian cricket for good. In a country where cricket is no less than a religion, I...

A cup of tea is omnipresent in our lives. And yet, tea does not belong to India. It came here a couple of hundred years ago and got perfectl...

Origins of a lot of food are very diverse. Yet they somehow manage to reach a country and get assimilated in the gastronomy and culture so w...

Voice Over: Sneha Gore Mehendale and Tanmay Kanitkar India faced a sociopolitical storm in the year 2011, with almost the entire nation gett...

In this second part of the conversation with Parimal Maya Sudhakar, we explore how the Chinese perspective has changed over the years, where...

The Sino-Indian war of 1962 remains one of the most landmark events in the post independence Indian history. Not because we lost it, but 'co...

In this second part of the polio episode, Sneha and Dr. Sanjay Mehendale discuss what were the hurdles in successful implementation of the p...

In 2014, the World Health Organization declared India as Polio Free. For a poor,populous and diverse country like India, this is a huge achi...

Starting with a single-screen theatre, PVR has become the undisputed king of multiplexes in India. We explore this story that is full of twi...

This is a story of India's iconic tipple, a very old vatted rum, Old Monk. Despite not being considered as a very glamorous drink, it has mi...

hailing from Hardidwar, a small town on the Ganges, Baba Ramdev and his brand Patanjali has reached unprecedented heights. This episode of '...

Continuing the story of India's space mission, Dr Chitnis speaks about various interesting details- how did they find the spot of launching...

Despite being a poor nation, India launched a great space programme. In last 60 odd years, India has come a long way from being a beginner t...

The Right to Education, as seen in the last episode is a landmark legislation in India, shaping our future generations. Are the provisions r...

It was really a historic decision by the Govt of India and draft and implement the basic right to education for all its citizens. What does...

The UID initiative by the Govt. of India was one of the milestone decisions in the last 70 years. And to say that it is significant would be...

India faced a tricky economic situation back in 1991, which incidentally started the biggest economic reforms in India. This episode talks a...

This episode talks about a historic and very controversial move in the independent India: Demonetization.

Discussing the effects-both short and long term-of the demolition of Babri Masjid on dec 6th, 1992.

It is 25 years since Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was razed to the round and yet that continues to have repercussions on various levels. In this...

Back to the season India@ 70. Once dependent on other countries for food as it was unable to produce grains for its own people, India today...

Although many international make-up brands have now firmly established themselves in the Indian market, Lakme still remains one of the top p...

Cafe Coffee Day, popularly known as CCD is one of the most favourite places for the youth to hang out. Not only is CCD the first Indian chai...

Amul is a classic 'made in India' story. An amazing history of 72 years, where a rural movement created a globally known and hugely successf...

One of the best known brands proudly 'Made in India', Time pieces from have found their way in almost every Indian home.

It has been three years since India started an ambitious initiative named Make in India. And yet, there have been so many stories since so m...